| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: Mina is now sleeping like a little child. It is wonderful thing that her
faculty of sleep remains to her in the midst of her terrible trouble.
Thank God for it, for then at least she can forget her care.
Perhaps her example may affect me as her gaiety did tonight.
I shall try it. Oh! For a dreamless sleep.
6 October, morning.--Another surprise. Mina woke me early,
about the same time as yesterday, and asked me to bring
Dr. Van Helsing. I thought that it was another occassion
for hypnotism, and without question went for the Professor.
He had evidently expected some such call, for I found him
dressed in his room. His door was ajar, so that he could
Dracula |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy: middle of which soldiers were watering their lean horses at the pump
while carts were passing out of the gate. Pierre turned away with
repugnance, and closing his eyes quickly fell back on the carriage
seat. "No, I don't want that, I don't want to see and understand that.
I want to understand what was revealing itself to me in my dream.
One second more and I should have understood it all! But what am I
to do? Harness, but how can I harness everything?" and Pierre felt
with horror that the meaning of all he had seen and thought in the
dream had been destroyed.
The groom, the coachman, and the innkeeper told Pierre that an
officer had come with news that the French were already near
War and Peace |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Study of a Woman by Honore de Balzac: interpret as we please the strong, harsh tones of a "burgundian."
Here I must pause to put before all ignorant persons an explanation of
that word, derived from a very distinguished etymologist who wishes
his name kept secret.
"Burgundian" is the name given, since the reign of Charles VI., to
those noisy detonations, the result of which is to fling upon the
carpet or the clothes a little coal or ember, the trifling nucleus of
a conflagration. Heat or fire releases, they say, a bubble of air left
in the heart of the wood by a gnawing worm. "Inde amor, inde
burgundus." We tremble when we see the structure we had so carefully
erected between the logs rolling down like an avalanche. Oh! to build
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